RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 319, 3 January 1907, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED. . [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT | (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 29. An appalling train accident has j just occurred. While the Caledonian Company s train from Arbroath to Dundee was.waiting at Elliott June- - tion for the signal to proceed, the 1 North British express, travelling at the rate of not more than twenty miles an hour, crashed into the rear of the stationary train, and telescoped the guard’s van and the coaches ad- ' joining. The side of one carriage was torn out, revealing a confused mass of dead and injured. Nineteen • were killed and 37 injured, one or two fatally, including Mr Black, M.P. ■ for Banffshire, who succumbed to his injuries. COLLISION IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, December 31. ' t A passenger and a goods train col- < lided on the Baltimore-Ohio railway, near Washington, yesterday. . The passenger train was wrecked, with disastrous results. Thirty - eight' were killed and 50 injured. ACCIDENT IN GERMANY. Berlin. December 31. The Hamburg - Cologne express . collided with a goods train at Otterberg, near Mannheim, yesterday. - One of the carriages of the express was smashed, and five persons were killed and injured.